“Fuel mismanagement “is the most common cause of private plane crashes. The second is flying into weather conditions the pilot is not trained for ( think JFK jr.)
...and John Denver. That was the ultimate in fuel mismanagement.
I didn’t know fuel mismanagement is the leading cause of private plane crashes. That is really surprising to me.
Many decades ago, a company in Chile hired a small charter private plane to bring me to a remote plant for some service work. We were flying into the Copiapo Desert and there was a wall of really bad weather in front of us as far as you could see east-west.I was never so thankful as when that prudent pilot put us down at a small airport in the desert. We waited a couple hours, took off again, reconnoitered a while, and landed again. He then put me on a bus for the rest of the trip. I’m still thankful for his prudence.